Monday’s Margins: Blue Sky Thinking, Literary Lies and Confessions

Have you ever claimed to read a book that you never actually finished? If so, it may have been one of these: The Books We Lie About.

In “Confessions of a Literary Jingoist” Elizabeth Minkel writes: “You can seek out literature from just about anywhere — and now it’s easier than any previous point in history — but it’s a hell of a lot harder to bring it into the conversation.”